Sunday, December 13, 2009

Original Style cover for the Majestic Wilderlands

Two days ago I released a PDF to allow people to print an original style cover for their PDF. Several have requested the ability to order a print copy with that cover. With the internet being the way it is this is not a problem to issue.

One thing tho is that the PDF is black on white. And I don't think that what people were expecting. Luckily I own the three original booklet (the box sadly trashed many years ago). One of them has a very clean back cover with no text or graphics. So I scanned that in and used it as a background texture.

I used my photo printer to see how it looked and it looked very nice. Since I printed the first cover and it matched the proof copy from Lulu I figure that it would be OK to release it now.

No need to apologize! Besides, if I really like MW, I'll probably be passing my copy onto some kids in Ohio that I just turned on to S&W, and pick it up the OS cover. Maybe. Because I do like the color version as well.

Bat in the Attic Games

How to make a Sandbox

The Old School Renaissance

To me the Old School Renaissance is not about playing a particular set of rules in a particular way, the dungeon crawl. It is about going back to the roots of our hobby and seeing what we could do differently. What avenues were not explored because of the commercial and personal interests of the game designers of the time.

What are RPGs?

A game where the players play individual characters interacting with a setting with their actions adjudicated by a human referee.

Rules are an aide to help the referee adjudicate actions and to help the players interact with the setting.

Dice are used to inject uncertainty which make a tabletop RPG campaign more interesting than "Let's Pretend".

The only thing a player needs to do to roleplay a character is to act if he or she was really there in the setting in that situation.